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Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you
Joined March 2010

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Indeed! The magic is all in the kikiness Which reminds me, I'm organizing a conference all about turning boubafying into kikishapes starting This Monday. You can attend virtually... and you should! singularlearningtheory.com
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You see, differential geometry is limited in that it can only do bouba-geometry, whereas algebraic geometry has a whole language for treating kikiness. It even has tools for boubafying kiki-shapes in characteristic zero by blowing the kikies up.
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Today, we’re starting a blog post sequence explaining how causality underpins many critical aspects of safe AGI, including agency, incentives, misspecification, generalisation, fairness, and corrigibility. We explain past work and open questions.
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tldr; Harry Reid gave a donor an exclusive contract to study dino-beavers at Skinwalker Ranch in 2008, the NYT wrongly reported it as a UFO program in 2017, this memed into existence a real DoD UFO program with Ancient Aliens members, now we have ridiculous stories all the time
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1. Normally sane figures are making fools of themselves this week over "alien wreckage." But the real UFO story is about how we got here: government nepotism and journalistic fuck ups at the NYT. Oh, and dino-beavers. Gear up. theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-ufo-craz
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*cyborg elite in the year 2499 voice* these hieroglyphics are the prototypes from which our own kanji descended, the closest prespeakers came to miming the artilect tongue. It was they who first understood English to be a provincialist patois of fatally limited dimensionality
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LessWrong enabling reacts inaugurating a Golden Age of intellectual inquiry
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My HS maths teacher liked to say: in math being almost right equals being wrong. Forbidding. Uncompromising. 'hereustic arguments' are a relaxed notion of proof, a probabilistic guess that is 'sorta correct' and may even be retracted if incorrect.
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🕺Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight ...Blame it on the boogie🕺 oh hi I didn't see you there! just wrote a blogpost about lazers and the consequences of diffraction limits on the plausibility of Star Wars coz im a nerd 🤓
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A new preprint added to the case for herpes causing dementia. How did they do it? They used a Herpes zoster birth date vaccine eligibility cutoff for a regression discontinuity. Dementia diagnoses were down 3.5% or 19.9% in relative terms for people born a week later.
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Herpes is terrible, but did you know it might also be making people demented? Studies of the effects of antivirals support this contention and show that we may be able to greatly reduce dementia rates with existing drugs. Check out this Taiwanese result.
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... the Substance of Reality is not merely mixed and merged by happenstance. By decree, it can only be warped and woven according to the Three Righteous Compositions: the Penetration of Exposed Ports, the Intimacy of Sharing Variables, and the belated Setting of Parameters
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TIL i learned the speaker of the house is the real power behind the throne thru the McKelvey's chaos theorem👀
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Replying to @adamdangelo
Arrow's theorem helps explain why legislatures appoint someone with strong agenda setting powers. McKelvey's chaos theorem is the real-world version of Arrow, and it illustrates the power of the agenda-setter. So legislators put effort into monitoring the agenda-setter.
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MRI= Fourier analysis of body and mind thru dynamically controlling all your body's hydrogen atoms in precisely choreographed wavelets of gyromagnetic decay of quantum spins thru vacuum chamber liquid helium cooled superconducting electromagnets 30000x Earth's magnetic field
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MRI machines are more complex than I appreciated, amazing that this works: youtube.com/watch?v=NlYXqR
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